Roberta Feins was raised outside of New York City, lives in Seattle, and has worked as a biologist, planner, and computer consultant. She received her MFA in poetry from New England College in 2007. Her poems have been published in Tea Party, Floating Bridge Review, Five AM and Antioch Review. She edits the e-zine Switched On Gutenberg (http://www.switched-ongutenberg.org/).